Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Spectrum News in Tampa featured this header the other day: Stetson Law School Alumni say no to school donations after Bondi congressional ...

I was raised Catholic and spent my formative years at mass and in catechism when not attending Catholic School. I'm a recipient of most ...

A round-up is a task performed by cowboys when they bring in the cattle. I am not a cowboy. But I spent 30 years in The Cowboy State of Wy...

  Posted Jan. 9 on Facebook by the poet. Ninety long years ago, Lorca was murdered by fascists. His spirit lives on.

Beginning Oct. 16, I will be reading John Fabian Witt ’s book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended Am...

I've spent a lot of time in the 19-teens and 20s lately. A tumultuous time, even if you concentrate on one summer in America as does Bil...

As I read Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927,” I realized that our history is comprised of an amazing number of knuckleheads and heroes...

Words are sacred. Most writers agree with that. We use words to convey our deepest feelings. We also entertain and communicate with words,...

A. Friend (not a real name) told me that she and her husband are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to see the National Museum of Afri...

 

Update 4/10/25: "Hands Off" was the official term for the April 5 protests. Sorry I forgot to mention it. Perfect label for a resp...

Baltimore's H.L. Mencken may have been the most quotable of newspaper reporters. Some comments are crass and insensitive. Others dug dee...

Here’s how I used to think about World War 2. It was our father’s and mother’s war. My father joined up early in ’42 and served as a radioma...

When I moved away from Daytona Beach, Florida, the beachside still had sand dunes and you could drive the entire World's Most Famous Bea...

Susan Stubson of Casper has been writing Wyoming-based op-ed columns for many years. Most have to do with her family and her husband Tim who...

I’m reading “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah . It’s the story of two sisters in a small French village occupied by the Nazis. The elder s...

Saturday morning round-up Watched the first hearing Thursday night of the Jan. 6 Insurrection Committee. Compelling television. I'm not ...

I feel almost giddy as this week spells the end of Trump in the White House and a new president installed. A new day for Washington, D.C., a...

We witnessed a coup attempt Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol Building. Trump and his goons incited other goons to storm the Capitol and disrupt...

Happy New Year. We are glad to say goodbye to 2020, the Year of the Pandemic. It also was the year that a majority of voters and Electoral C...